I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

You have to let life come and go.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.